Nice, Cannes, Hyères… The Côte d’Azur partly plunged into darkness this Wednesday evening

2023-10-11 22:20:09

In Nice, Cannes and Antibes, in the Alpes-Maritimes, but also near Hyères and Draguignan, notably in the Var department, entire neighborhoods were randomly plunged into darkness this Wednesday evening due to a “technical incident” on a high voltage line, according to Electricity Transport Network (RTE).

Around 7:45 p.m., an “overload” forced the manager “to make cuts,” a spokesperson told 20 Minutes. “The homes began to be replenished around 8:38 p.m.” and the situation was back to normal around 10:15 p.m., she also indicated.

“Numerous calls for blocked elevators”

In Nice, according to the mayor (Horizons) Christian Estrosi, the outage affected “at least 130,000 people”. “We had 250,000 customers cut off at the peak in the departments of Var and Alpes-Maritimes,” RTE said.

A power outage affecting at least 130,000 people #Nice06 and other towns in the department and Var intervened this evening. Contacted, the teams @rte_france are undergoing intervention to return to normal as soon as possible. More info to come.

— Christian Estrosi (@cestrosi) October 11, 2023

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This incident is in any case not without consequences. In the Alpes-Maritimes, “the firefighters received around a hundred calls for blocked elevators” with “less than twenty effective interventions”, indicated the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) 06.